15:45 Limerick

Wednesday 27 December 2017

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Provimilk Calf Milk Replacer Rated Novice Hurdle

Off time: 15:45 | Winning time: 4m 31.40s

Penance^t²⁵

Age: 7| Weight: 11-9| J: P E Corbett⁽³⁾| T: T Gibney| OR: 115

11/1

Ran well on racecourse return until fading after three out in Fairyhouse novice hurdle earlier in the month. Could easily recapture promising maiden hurdle form on second start of the season.

Form: 80-2179

Cosmo's Moon^p1³¹

Age: 4| Weight: 11-7| J: K Brogan⁽⁷⁾| T: R P McNamara

9/4

Cheekpieces are reached for following a heavy 38L defeat last time out in the Grade 3 'Monksfield' novice hurdle last month. Worth a market check.

Form: 59-27

Monotype⁵⁸

Age: 5| Weight: 11-6| J: D J McInerney⁽⁵⁾| T: P Nolan| OR: 112

7/1

A winner on the Flat for Luca Cumani and Roger Varian when trained in England, but has been placed in only one of six hurdles race since joining his current yard.

Form: 5825-86

Cluan Dara¹⁰

Age: 5| Weight: 11-1| J: Danny Mullins| T: J P Ryan| OR: 107

4/1

Now a 10-race maiden hurdler and well beaten in his last four hurdle starts. Hard to construct much of a case for him here.

Form: 226633

Barna Venture^h1¹⁰⁵

Age: 7| Weight: 11-0| J: D G Hogan| T: D Hogan

20/1

Slight improvement on a 61L defeat on debut in February when finishing third of six beaten 17L. Difficult to see what improvement first-time hood will make.

Form: 7-3

Fluspar^b²⁶

Age: 9| Weight: 11-0| J: D J Hand⁽⁷⁾| T: D Howard| OR: 98

22/1

Won a chase at Tramore last December but has been well out of sorts since then. 0-19 over hurdles and hard to envisage he can alter the stats with a win on recent evidence.

Form: 446-704

Wait Here^t²⁶

Age: 4| Weight: 10-12| J: A E Lynch| T: A Leahy| OR: 107| CD

2/1

Improving juvenile who won over C&D last time out earlier this month to add to his win in October. Likely to be a warm order here.

Form: 4-PF11

Nancy Maher¹³

Age: 4| Weight: 10-11| J: Mr S F O'Keeffe⁽⁷⁾| T: Miss E Doyle

50/1

Not much to shout about in three second-rate starts since November beaten a total of over 190L. Well out of her depth here.

Form: 707

Non-Runners

Ratoute Yutty³¹

Weight: 11-7| Age: 4

T: R P McNamara J: A E Lynch

Forecasts

Wait Here (2/1), Cosmo's Moon (9/4), Cluan Dara (4/1), Ratoute Yutty (5/1), Monotype (7/1), Penance (11/1), Barna Venture (20/1), Fluspar (22/1), Nancy Maher (50/1)

The early pace of Penance, Ratoute Yutty and Monotype could simply set this contest up for the impressive juvenile WAIT HERE who can add to his C&D win earlier this month when beating nine rivals by 5½L. Ratoute Yutty can hang on for a place along with Cosmo's Moon who sports first-time cheekpieces.